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[Silvacon]

Hello all from a newbie from AZ. I have a frankenstein of a set up in my truck. I just picked up a JL Audio 12TW1-4 and I am a bit lost on this parallel vs series wiring up the speaker, but wait lets not forget bridging. It will ne a single speaker connected to the amp, so Im guessing bridging is the preferred choice. What is the advantage/disadvantage of doing that?

I plan on reusing my box and when I opened it up I found two sets of wire; both terminals have a black striped and solid red wires. Is both set needed or can I change them with single wires and if so 18 gauge the best choice?

Thank you in advanced

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[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

That's a single coil sub. So since it's 4 ohm, you only have 1 choice of wiring it. Unless you had DVC or 2 of those subs, then that would open up more wiring options.

 

[Silvacon]

Then its a direct wiring, not even bridging?

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Well maybe. What amp?

 

[Silvacon]

1000w rockford fosgate....I cant tell you the model number at this moment.

 

[Sonic. 10+ year member]

As mention above, its a single 4 ohm sub, so there is only one wiring option for the sub. What amp do you have?

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

That should work. Depending upon the amps power consumption...might be using 1/2 the amps power, I don't know until you mention the model #.

 

[Sonic. 10+ year member]

1000w rockford fosgate....I cant tell you the model number at this moment.

Model ?

 

[Silvacon]

I will get the model number tomorrow.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

tomorrow?

 

[Silvacon]

Fosgate CX600.1

 

[BOOMINGRANDPA 5,000+ posts]

looks like 325rms at 4 ohms..

 

[shredder2]

Fosgate CX600.1

RF makes a CX 600.1?.. I've heard of a Kicker with that model number

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

RF makes a CX 600.1?.. I've heard of a Kicker with that model number

Kicker CX600.1 600 Watt RMS Single-Channel Class D Car Amplifier //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif guess OP doesn't know what brand of amp he has?!

 

[shredder2]

1000w rockford fosgate....I cant tell you the model number at this moment.

Fosgate CX600.1

looks like 325rms at 4 ohms..

Wow... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif... Fosgate CX 600 and someone found specs?

1000 watt CX 600?